Unless you use a fountain pen, of course, in which case it feathers and bleeds like crazy on all versions except the sketchbook.

Posted by: nick | January 22, 2005 06:28 PM

Maybe your problem has to do with the ink and/or the pen; in my experience this isn't automatically the case with moleskines. I use the small notebooks; I write in 'em with black or blue Sheaffer ink and a couple of fine-nib fountain pens (an old Sheaffer Targa and a Namiki Falcon) and I've had no problem with feathering or bleeding with either pen so far. I tried a G2 at first, and DID have a serious problem with both feathering and bleeding - plus the ink takes forever to dry. I'm not writing deathless prose for posterity, I'm writing pretty mundane stuff for my own use, so the "archival" thing isn't a concern for me. I do enjoy the flow of fountain pen ink on a moleskine's paper.